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<h1>chatP5.aim</h1>
<p>the aim package of chatP5 lets you write your own aim clients in java and 
processing to communicate with aim clients like e.g. iChat or adium.</p>
<p>chatP5.aim uses the toc2 protocol to communicate with the 
aol instant messenging server. The toc2 protocol is an updated version 
of the toc protocol, or "talk to oscar" protocol. Its existence was never 
documented by AOL and it is only used in a few aol Instant Messenger clients. 
Some clients are beginning to offer plugins for toc2 in light of AOL's recent 
shutdown of their toc servers. Like its predecessor, toc2 is an ASCII 
protocol and lacks some features of oscar like peer-to-peer messenging or
file exchange.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://web.mit.edu/~austein/www/toc2.txt" target="_blank">toc2 specs</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOC2_protocol" target="_blank">toc2 protocol</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_Instant_Messenger" target="_blank">aol instant messenger</a></li>
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